17 Bible Verses about Abuse From a Spouse

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.

Remember prisoners, as bound with them; those that are evil-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there; for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,read more.
traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; having a form of piety but denying the power of it: and from these turn away. For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts, always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

(for I hate putting away, saith Jehovah the God of Israel;) and he covereth with violence his garment, saith Jehovah of hosts: take heed then to your spirit, that ye deal not unfaithfully.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it, in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word, that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.read more.
So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;

But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for cause of fornication, makes her commit adultery, and whosoever marries one that is put away commits adultery.

Deliver them that are taken forth unto death, and withdraw not from them that stagger to slaughter.

Ye husbands likewise, dwell with them according to knowledge, as with a weaker, even the female, vessel, giving them honour, as also fellow-heirs of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.